And this series is BACK after my short hiatus...somewhere. Miss it, pathetic fanboys? Of course you did!

Since I didn't do anything for two weeks, you get a two-fer: two pioneering Orange County newspapermen who were Klan members, although A. Verd Napier and James E. Rymer were hella difficult to unearth. The Klan roster during the 1920s misspelled both of their names (and also someone with the Placentia Courier whose name I still can't crack--but, hey, that's another column in the future!). And even ol' Napier gets somewhat off, because I couldn't figure out what the A stood for--he even has that listed as his first name on the 1920 U.S. Census.

But I was able to figure out their employer.

Napier was a publisher of small newspapers in the Midwest until moving to Orange County in 1919 to become the business manager for the pre-R.C. HoilesSanta Ana Register. He was also played a role in the early days of Orange County's first commercial radio station, KFAW. Rymer was the editor of the Brea Progress, important in spreading the KKK's message in that sordid little town

Gustavo Arellano is the editor of OC Weekly, author of the syndicated column "¡Ask a Mexican!", and Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America. He started at the paper with an angry, fake letter to the editor and went from there—only in Anacrime!